From Optimizely: An idea collaboration screen in Slack. Optimizely users can now share ideas and check the status of experiments through collaboration tool Slack. The announcement this week means that those marketers who subscribe to both Slack and Optimizely won’t need to log directly into Optimizely to check ongoing web, iOS, Android and Over-the-Top TV […]
Nobody likes the idea of being “marketed to,” but developers especially are inherently allergic to marketing. Try traditional marketing methods on developers and they will backfire. At the same time, figuring out a way of communicating to developers in a smart, impactful way and gaining their loyalty is critical; they are now integrated into so
If you can remember back to the time in the last century before Adobe launched its PDF, software-constructed documents were fickle things that acted differently in different devices and screens. With PDFs, marketers — among others — could issue press releases, white papers, printable surveys, case histories and many other documents, confident that users would
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Barry Levine covers marketing technology for Third Door Media. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and he has written about these and other tech subjects for such publications as CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for
Over the last few years, a variety of vendors have offered account-based marketing (ABM) capabilities as standalones or as additions to their existing platforms. While ABM uses spears, the metaphor goes, traditional lead-based sales uses nets. In ABM, salespeople develop approaches, for instance, toward different IBM departments, focusing on their specific histories, needs and decision-making
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Google’s visualization of its Contact Center AI Last week, Google announced a variety of new AI offerings, most notably the alpha release of its new Contact Center AI. Based on its Dialogflow development suite for conversational agents, launched last fall, Contact Center AI offers a voice bot Virtual Agent who answers a call, a handoff
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab has been moving quickly to catch up with blockchain. A week ago, its Blockchain Working Group announced a pilot program that would analyze the results of blockchain-based projects by its 150+ member organizations. This effort will include a white paper that pinpoints the most promising ad-related aspects of
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With the massive new requirements for user consent in the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) and the new California privacy law, you’d think the recently emerged consent management platforms would have landed in every sizable company’s toolbox. Not so, says “How Privacy Tech Is Bought and Deployed” (free, registration required), a new report on the
A key question about mobile marketing is whether marketers should employ platforms specifically designed for those devices or utilize mobile capabilities within larger, multichannel marketing clouds. Gartner’s first Magic Quadrant report on mobile marketing platforms points out the depth of mobile capabilities in mobile-only offerings, plus it notes the flexibility for a marketer who doesn’t
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Individual clips from Maroon 5’s Vivoom-powered “Confessionals” The biggest difference between today’s advertising and advertising in the days of “Mad Men” is the current importance of users who create and share content about your brand. A user passing around imagery showing a product being used, particularly if it comes with that user’s implied endorsement of
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